Getting down for some 'hot coffee' action isn't going to happen on the Xbox 360, at least not with the Kinect motion control system and not with Microsoft's say-so.
Borrowing the moral police helmet from Apple, Microsoft last night said that a protoype Austrian "sex game interface" based on the hand-tracking Xbox add-on will …

Couldn't agree more!

My cousin (hence the anon), aged 11 has all the Call of Duty games (against my suggestion that shooting Russian civilians was a bit disturbing..), however he isn't allowed GTA, because of the prostitutes...

The main reason (well one of them)

The main reason though you never see any "AO" aduits only rated games for any of the consoles is that a certain US retailer who's name ends with "Mart" and begins with "Wall" won't touch 'em with a barge pole.

This one retailer pretty much has a whole industry held to ransom in terms of what is suitable content.

As for Kinect and it being "family friendly" - now I know what they mean after seeing those youtube videos of family members physically "kinecting" with each other rather painfully it seems while playing the bloody thing! It should come with an inflatable boxing ring and padded headgear to protect nippers from getting smacked round the chops by their parents while playing Just Dance!

err...

Killing OK but fondling is wrong ?

So it is OK to have games where you kill and murder people. But a bit of fondling or sex is not allowed ? What a twisted set of moral priorities. Nothing wrong with a bit of nudity or fantasy fondling.

@Semaj

GTA isn't adult only. I think it's rated "Teen" in the US, though they seem to ignore ratings.

I think they're missing an opportunity. They could use it as a sex ed toy to train them up before they're old enough to do the real thing. They have to learn before doing everything else, so it might do them some good.

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saw it

Saw it on 2ch running Real Kanojo - the origonal game had an option for using two mice (may also have had a link for one of those remote control vaginas), it was worth adapting just for the lulz though, and hey it may increase the sales in Japan as basement dwellers decide the kinect may be useful somewhere in their lives. No one else in Japan will need one (or has a house big enough to use one)

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Dunno...

Seems to miss the point, surely sex and intimate contact is just that, it's the act of physical contact that is the ultimate sensation you're after? Flapping and waving your various bits about midair, seems to miss the fun of intimate, sexual activity.

I don't own one but...

Don't forget the American market

...tends towards the Victorian: It's okay to let the undercurrent population get maimed or killed but sex? Ah, well. That's really not suitable for us prudes, don't you know.

After all, there's plenty in the Bible that covers destruction of life - backed by the right to bear arms - but very little to do with sex beyond '...and Mary didn't know Joseph' (which is rather tame these days). Come to think of it, I'm not sure the US constitution even mentions sex beyond brotherly love (yes, I'm taking it out of conext. Calm down at the back).

"Mary did not know Joseph"

At the Erotica show a couple of years ago...

... in the Trade Section, there was a new "toy" from Japan which was a synthetic female hand attached to a mechanism which would allow it to slide up and down in synchronisation with the motions of a young lady on a video which would play on your computer.

I can't help thinking that with that and the game in this article plus a webcam there's a whole new world of (ahem) "interactive communications devices" just waiting to be developed...!!!

I was given to understand

Recognising fingers....

The original prototypes had on-board bones processing, and the bones model didn't recognise fingers.

The bones processing was taken out (ostensibly as a cost saving, but more likely cos they knew the device was going to be hackable, and they'd effectively be giving cheap motion capture to ever cartoon and video-game studio in the world) so these guys must be making their own bones from the video feed. The original bones model didn't follow fingers because of size and processing speed, but in this game the hand appears to be held closer to the camera than usual, and the software is only tracking the hand, so it's not having to do any more work than the basic bones model used in the dance sim, for example.

Funny

rated M

Its not just wal mart. Game stop is that way to. I'm 32 and this jack ass is asking me for my ID to buy max payne. I walk out and bout it on line used from Amazon . I don't look any thing close to under 18.

You'll go blind

Made me think of The Addams family

I know a better game...

for people on their own looking for some fun which doesn't involve the Kinect and can be controlled with only one hand...... It's called Spanking the Monkey!!! It's cheaper, faster and probably much more gratifying